ABCs at the Movies: The Doubles Round!

[MaineWriter]

Are we deep enough in the Depression yet?

Round 1933 for your playing pleasure, everyone!

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This was a big deal in 1933 with an all star cast

 Charlotte Henry ...  Alice
 Leon Errol ...  Uncle Gilbert
 Louise Fazenda ...  The White Queen
 Ford Sterling ...  The White King
 Richard 'Skeets' Gallagher ...  The White Rabbit 
 Raymond Hatton ...  The Mouse
 Polly Moran ...  The Dodo Bird
 Ned Sparks ...  The Caterpillar
 Sterling Holloway ...  The Frog
 Roscoe Ates ...  The Fish
 Alison Skipworth ...  The Duchess
 Lillian Harmer ...  The Cook
 Richard Arlen ...  The Cheshire Cat
 Edward Everett Horton ...  The Mad Hatter
 Jackie Searl ...  Dormouse
 Charles Ruggles ...  The March Hare (as Charlie Ruggles)
 Baby LeRoy ...  The Joker (as Baby Le Roy)
 May Robson ...  The Queen of Hearts
 Alec B. Francis ...  The King of Hearts
 William Austin ...  The Gryphon
 Cary Grant ...  The Mock Turtle
 Edna May Oliver ...  The Red Queen
 Jack Oakie ...  Tweedledum
 Roscoe Karns ...  Tweedledee
 Mae Marsh ...  The Sheep
 W.C. Fields ...  Humpty-Dumpty
 Gary Cooper ...  The White Knight

[Ellemeno]

Tagline:  She climbed the ladder of success - wrong by wrong!


Lilly (Barbara Stanwyck) sleeps her way from basement speakeasy bartender, literally floor by floor, to the top floor of a New York office building. Bank submanager Jimmy McCoy finds her a job in the bank only to be cast aside as she hooks up with the bank's president.

[Meryl]

Cavalcade is a 1933 film that takes a historical view of English life from New Year's Eve 1899 through New Years Day 1933. It is told from the point of view of well-to-do Londoner residents Jane and Robert Marryot (played by Diana Wynyard and Clive Brook). The film chronicles events including the Second Boer War, the death of Queen Victoria, the sinking of the Titanic and the Great War. It used the tagline "The march of time measured by a mother's heart!"

Winner of three 1933 Academy Awards, for best picture, best director (Frank Lloyd), and best art direction.  Despite being widely spoken of as one of the finest films ever made at the time, as well as being influential on later Upstairs, Downstairs-type dramas, the film version of Cavalcade has fallen into obscurity.

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[MaineWriter]

==from IMDb==

Soap Operalike, yes. Weepy eyed, yes. Over the top, yes. Cornball to the hilt, yes. But, Barbara Stanwyck was absolutely beautiful in this film. No one can watch this and not fall in love with her. The rest of the cast was good too, but I was totally engrossed in her performance.



(I don't know if this picture is from the movie, but it is from the right time period, early 1930s)

[Meryl]

Starred Dolores del Rio and Gene Raymond, but is remembered today primarily for the teaming of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, in relatively minor roles, who would go on to star in nine more films together. Their first dance together on film, "The Carioca", appears in this film.

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[Fran]

AKA Hoopla

[Meryl]